While elaborate enterprise architecture management (EAM) methods and models are at architects’ disposal, it remains an observable and critical challenge to actually anchor, i.e. institutionalize, EAM in the organization and among non-architects. Based on previous work outlining design factors for EAM in light of institutional theory, this work discusses the theoretical grounding of respective d...

Schaller, Susanne: The Democratic Legitimacy of Private Governance. An Analysis of the Ethical Trading Initiative. Duisburg: Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg‐Essen (INEF Report, 91/2007). Private actors increasingly influence global governance and generate transnational rules and regulations. By creating soft law, they adopt governance tasks t...

This study contributes to the literature on Corporate Social and Environmental Disclosure (CSED hereafter) in the developing countries by exploring various influential factors for CSED and grouping them into three categories: normative, interest, and company groups (Solomon and Lewis 2002). These categories can create normative, coercive, and mimetic pressure respectively for a company to adapt...

Collective action will be effective in achieving broader social change goals to the extent that it influences public opinion yet the degree to which collective action "works" in changing opinion is rarely studied. Experiment 1 (n = 158) showed that, consistent with a logic of strategic non-violence, non-violent collective action more effectively conveys a sense of the illegitimacy of the issue ...

BACKGROUND The Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) is an initiative that brings together all stakeholders in the medicines market to create a multi-stakeholder dialogue and improve access, availability and affordability of medicines. Key to this multi-stakeholder dialogue is the participation of Civil Society Organisations. A recent MeTA annual review, identified uneven engagement of civil s...

Family firms' long-term capacity to survive and grow is premised on their legitimacy in the eyes of principal stakeholder groups. Drawing findings from interviews with owners/managers Russian family ventures, we suggest a multilevel concept firm legitimation activities adverse institutional settings. Due constellation structural cultural factors, firms Russia are simultaneously induced achieve ...

The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is at the heart of Next Generation EU, Europe’s plan to tackle economic fallout pandemic crisis. To obtain this support, national plans outlining structural reforms be implemented by member states are submitted for assessment European Commission before being approved Council. Accordingly, effectively implement financed RRF, governments their constituen...